{"id":240251,"date":"2021-07-15T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpj.org\/?p=119565"},"modified":"2021-07-15T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:17:28","slug":"assailant-of-turkish-journalist-can-dundar-convicted-over-2016-attack-but-sentence-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/15\/assailant-of-turkish-journalist-can-dundar-convicted-over-2016-attack-but-sentence-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Assailant of Turkish journalist Can D\u00fcndar convicted over 2016 attack, but sentence delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On July 8, 2021, a Turkish court sentenced Murat \u015eahin, who attempted to shoot journalist Can D\u00fcndar in a 2016 incident in Istanbul that left journalist Ya\u011f\u0131z \u015eenkal injured, to a delayed prison term and monetary fine, according to news<\/a> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 28th Istanbul Court of First Instance found \u015eahin guilty of several charges, including \u201cthreatening [D\u00fcndar] with a weapon,\u201d \u201cintentional injury\u201d to \u015eenkal, and \u201ccarrying an unregistered weapon,\u201d according to those reports. In addition to imposing a fine 500 Turkish lira (US$57), the court sentenced \u015eahin to three years, one month, and 15 days in prison, citing his \u201cgood behavior\u201d during the trial. However, the court delayed the execution of his sentence, allowing him to remain free unless he commits another crime in the next five years, those reports said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u015eahin claimed during the trial that while he did attempt to attack D\u00fcndar, he injured Ya\u011f\u0131z by mistake. He argued that he should be acquitted but he did not offer a reason why, those reports said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabri Boyac\u0131 and Habip Erg\u00fcn Celep, the other two suspects in the case who were tried as a lookout and an instigator, were acquitted due to lack of evidence, the reports said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling was part of a retrial, after \u015eenkal\u2019s lawyers appealed the original verdict in 2018, which had sentenced \u015eahin to 10 months in prison and imposed a 4,500 lira (US$750 at the time) fine, as CPJ documented<\/a>. Boyac\u0131 and Celep were acquitted in that trial as well, according to reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u015eahin attacked D\u00fcndar, former chief editor at the daily Cumhuriyet, <\/em>in front of the Istanbul\u2019s \u00c7a\u011flayan courthouse on May 6, 2016, CPJ has documented<\/a>. \u015eenkal, an NTV reporter, was hit by a stray bullet. \u015eahin was arrested<\/a> and imprisoned for six months<\/a> after the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D\u00fcndar received CPJ\u2019s International Press Freedom Award<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n\n


\r\nThis content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a> and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.
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On July 8, 2021, a Turkish court sentenced Murat \u015eahin, who attempted to shoot journalist Can D\u00fcndar in a 2016 incident in Istanbul that left journalist Ya\u011f\u0131z \u015eenkal injured, to a delayed prison term and monetary fine, according to news reports. The 28th Istanbul Court of First Instance found \u015eahin guilty of several charges, including…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30143,22127,25077,27150,8452,1320],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240252,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240251\/revisions\/240252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}